Week 9

 Dear Parents,

       This week in math we have been working hard on learning two digit subtraction, with and without regrouping. Thank you for your support at home and working with your child. This is always confusing at first, but we’re getting it! 

        In writing your children have taken off by planning his/her individual narrative writing project. The children are excited to write about their experiences and are doing an excellent job so far. We also have learned about nouns, Proper Noun s, plural/ singular nous and abbreviations! 

         In Social Studies/ reading we read Big Red Lollipop and took a comprehension check. We discussed how the story was written in first person. We also discussed what it means for a story to be written in  third person .We listened to The Compromise Kid video and discussed how we can compromise when we are having a disagreement. We used words like compromise, decision, and disagreement. We talked about antonyms and synonyms for these words. In science we continued with our unit on sound. We used tuning forks to see and feel vibrations. We talked about volume as loud or quiet sounds. We listened for low or high pitches and talked about how the sound waves differ for those pitches. We read and highlighted an article about sound. On Thursday, we put together a book about sound, highlighted it and glued it in our science notebooks.

Week 8

 Dear Parents,

      In math this week we began two digit subtraction with and without regrouping. At first they confuse it with the addition we have been doing, but practicing at home will help with this transition. The class is getting more independent with their problem solving skills each morning!

      In writing we wrapped up our class project about the first day of school and published it! We are very proud of the writing we did together. We are looking forward to launching our individual narratives next week.

       In reading and social studies we read a story, thought about the words, read questions and decided the best answers to those questions. We went back to the text to prov e our answers. We went back to the story and highlighted words that described sea stars. We figured out the author’s purpose for writing the story. Soon we will be taking these assessments on our own. We read Being a Good Citizen  and figured out the author’s purpose in writing this story. We filled in a graphic organizer together. We began researching our book about Texas Symbols and worked hard filling in missing information, writing sentences and drawing pictures.

        In science we began our investigations about our new unit, Sound Energy. We listened to what happened when we strummed a rubber band on  a box with a hole cut in the top. We predicted how it would sound when we made the rubber band tighter. We realized that sound energy causes vibrations. We also used a drum to make vibrations. We wrote about our observations in our science notebooks.

Action Items

• We have only three days left for stuff the pantry- see below items that can be brought to school. We have not had any donations in our class.
• Thank you Madeline and family for bringing in more individual bags of goldfish!
• We still need a few more pumpkins on our vine!
• Cultural dolls are due Oct. 15^th- see below
• Please send in $3.00 for our Fall festival grade level basket for the silent auction